NASA Announces the Team who'll be Studying UFO Data. It's a Pretty Impressive List
NASA just announced the members of the independent study team that will recommend how the study of UAP can help the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
How Should the World’s Governments Respond if We Detect an Alien Civilization?
Science fiction is the realm where people traditionally wrestle with the idea of contact with an ETI (Extraterrestrial Intelligence.) But now, those discussions are migrating from science fiction into more serious realms. Academics are going back and forth, one paper at a time, concerning the response and geopolitical fallout from potential contact with an ETI. …
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Humanity Will Need to Survive About 400,000 Years if We Want any Chance of Hearing From an Alien Civilization
If there are so many galaxies, stars, and planets, where are all the aliens, and why haven’t we heard from them? Those are the simple questions at the heart of the Fermi Paradox. In a new paper, a pair of researchers ask the next obvious question: how long will we have to survive to hear …
Why Would an Alien Civilization Send Out Von Neumann Probes? Lots of Reasons, says a new Study
A new study takes a look at Von Neumann probes and asks the really important questions: “why would aliens send them?” and, “where might we find them?”
What is the Kardashev Scale?
In 1961, Russian-Soviet astrophysicist Nikolai Kardashev published a paper where he introduced the Kardashev Scale, a means of classifying extraterrestrial civilizations based on the amount of energy the could harness.
What is the Arecibo Message?
In 1974, the famous Arecibo Message was sent into space, humanity’s first and only attempt at messaging extraterrestrial intelligence.
Could our Universe be Someone’s Chemistry Project?
According to a new op-ed by Harvard Prof. Avi Loeb, our Universe may have been created by an advanced civilization, something we might be able to do someday too.
China’s FAST Telescope Could Detect Self-Replicating Alien Probes
One of the most challenging questions to answer when confronting the Fermi Paradox is why exponentially scaling technologies haven’t taken over the universe by now. Commonly known as von Neumann probes, the idea of a self-replicating swarm of extraterrestrial robots has been a staple of science fiction for decades. But so far, there has never …
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Beyond “Fermi’s Paradox” XVII: What is the “SETI-Paradox” Hypothesis?
Another reason we haven’t heard from aliens is that the possibility that every everyone is listening, but nobody’s messaging!
If Aliens Are Out There, We’ll Meet Them in a Few Hundred Million Years
A new study indicates that aliens are probably out there, occupying half of the Universe, and we’ll likely meet them in 200 million or to 2 billion years.